Venezuela Is Starving

Once Latin America’s richest country, Venezuela can no longer feed its people, hobbled by the nationalization of farms as well as price and currency controls

Hordes of people, many with children in tow, rummage through garbage, an uncommon sight a year ago. People in the countryside pick farms clean at night, stealing everything from fruits hanging on trees to pumpkins on the ground, adding to the misery of farmers hurt by shortages of seed and fertilizer. Looters target food stores. Families padlock their refrigerators.

Three in four Venezuelans said they had lost weight last year, an average of 19 pounds, according to the National Poll of Living Conditions, an annual study by social scientists. People here, in a mix of rage and humor, call it the Maduro diet after President Nicolás Maduro.

We ask you to be so good as to pass a law requiring the closing of all windows, dormers, skylights, inside and outside shutters, curtains, casements, bull's-eyes, deadlights, and blinds — in short, all openings, holes, chinks, and fissures through which the light of the sun is wont to enter houses, to the detriment of the fair industries with which, we are proud to say, we have endowed the country, a country that cannot, without betraying ingratitude, abandon us today to so unequal a combat.

"Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul.
"Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
"War is the health of the State." - Randolph Bourne
"Freedom is the answer. ... Now, what's the question?" - Ernie Hancock.

“Force the normies into taking sides. At the moment they are just like "meh, I am minding my own business" retreating culturally into their private bubbles and "safe-spaces" since they don't understand what is going on. When the actual "us vs them" starts, they will be forced to fight or they'll die.” - Anonymous Poster

"Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul.
"Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
"War is the health of the State." - Randolph Bourne
"Freedom is the answer. ... Now, what's the question?" - Ernie Hancock.

* Enforce Border Security – America should be guarding her own borders and enforcing her own laws instead of policing the world and implementing UN mandates.

* No Amnesty - The Obama Administration’s endorsement of so-called “Comprehensive Immigration Reform,” granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, will only encourage more law-breaking.

* Abolish the Welfare State – Taxpayers cannot continue to pay the high costs to sustain this powerful incentive for illegal immigration. As Milton Friedman famously said, you can’t have open borders and a welfare state.

* End Birthright Citizenship – As long as illegal immigrants know their children born here will be granted U.S. citizenship, we’ll never be able to control our immigration problem.

You are stupid. All you think is somehow one commodity, that being the life blood of modern society is social democracy or socialist policies. Socialist policies are about taking the nastiness out of business, that goes unfettered in certain circles in capitalist society.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Republicanguy Parasiticmoocherguy again.

Originally Posted by Ron Paul

The intellectual battle for liberty can appear to be a lonely one at times. However, the numbers are not as important as the principles that we hold. Leonard Read always taught that "it's not a numbers game, but an ideological game." That's why it's important to continue to provide a principled philosophy as to what the role of government ought to be, despite the numbers that stare us in the face.

Socialist policies are about taking the nastiness out of business, that goes unfettered in certain circles in capitalist society.

capitalists being denastified

"The program of liberalism, ...if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property..."

-Ludwig von Mises

"Patriotism, not nationalism, should inspire the citizen. The ethnic nationalist who wants a linguistically and culturally uniform nation is akin to the racist who is intolerant toward those who look (and behave) differently. The patriot is a "diversitarian"; he is pleased, indeed proud of the variety within the borders of his country; he looks for loyalty from all citizens. And he looks up and down, not left and right."

-Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

"The monarch is a responsible person. The fact that a monarch is responsible "to God alone," rather than to an assembly or a popular majority, is rather shocking to an agnostic mind; but while God cannot be fooled, the masses can. While it is perhaps true that "one cannot fool all the people all the time," it seems one can fool millions for centuries."

"The program of liberalism, ...if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property..."

-Ludwig von Mises

"Patriotism, not nationalism, should inspire the citizen. The ethnic nationalist who wants a linguistically and culturally uniform nation is akin to the racist who is intolerant toward those who look (and behave) differently. The patriot is a "diversitarian"; he is pleased, indeed proud of the variety within the borders of his country; he looks for loyalty from all citizens. And he looks up and down, not left and right."

-Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

"The monarch is a responsible person. The fact that a monarch is responsible "to God alone," rather than to an assembly or a popular majority, is rather shocking to an agnostic mind; but while God cannot be fooled, the masses can. While it is perhaps true that "one cannot fool all the people all the time," it seems one can fool millions for centuries."

You are stupid. All you think is somehow one commodity, that being the life blood of modern society is social democracy or socialist policies. Socialist policies are about taking the nastiness out of business, that goes unfettered in certain circles in capitalist society.

Are some people here just being fools. Seriously, how childish can be people be from the liberty side. I mean the Gary Johnson conference with other Liberty nuts was just to laugh at.

Originally Posted by Ron Paul

The intellectual battle for liberty can appear to be a lonely one at times. However, the numbers are not as important as the principles that we hold. Leonard Read always taught that "it's not a numbers game, but an ideological game." That's why it's important to continue to provide a principled philosophy as to what the role of government ought to be, despite the numbers that stare us in the face.

Venezuela was run by a dictator who rallied the poor. He had a bad way of governing, and solely used crude oil to make money to pay for the social programs. It was short sighted. Don't be stupid, one country out there doesn't represent social democracy.

Chavez came from poverty, both his parents were poor. He was ignorant about diversity in the state.

As for the Libetarian conference, you couldn't defend it. It was ridiculous full of stupid people, who couldn't take people's lives seriously.

Venezuela was run by a dictator who rallied the poor. He had a bad way of governing, and solely used crude oil to make money to pay for the social programs. It was short sighted. Don't be stupid, one country out there doesn't represent social democracy.

Chavez came from poverty, both his parents were poor. He was ignorant about diversity in the state.

The problem isn't that the economy the Venezuelan state attempts to centrally plan relies largely on oil.

The problem is that the Venezuelan state attempts to centrally plan the economy at all.

The result would have been the same had the Venezuelan economy been highly diversified.

"The program of liberalism, ...if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property..."

-Ludwig von Mises

"Patriotism, not nationalism, should inspire the citizen. The ethnic nationalist who wants a linguistically and culturally uniform nation is akin to the racist who is intolerant toward those who look (and behave) differently. The patriot is a "diversitarian"; he is pleased, indeed proud of the variety within the borders of his country; he looks for loyalty from all citizens. And he looks up and down, not left and right."

-Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

"The monarch is a responsible person. The fact that a monarch is responsible "to God alone," rather than to an assembly or a popular majority, is rather shocking to an agnostic mind; but while God cannot be fooled, the masses can. While it is perhaps true that "one cannot fool all the people all the time," it seems one can fool millions for centuries."

"I have a strong temperamental attachment to the meaning of words. In the age I find myself in, that condemns me to a daily dose of pain." - John Derbyshire
"Give me control of the scientists' money supply and I care not who fakes the results."
"I can find millions of 'social problems' such as: 'Too many red-headed people have hangnails'." - Murray Rothbard

"Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul.
"Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
"War is the health of the State." - Randolph Bourne
"Freedom is the answer. ... Now, what's the question?" - Ernie Hancock.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, defying a threat of U.S. sanctions and calls by his opponents for two days of general strikes this week, vowed to press on with a vote to elect a new national assembly and rewrite the constitution.

“Who doesn’t go vote next Sunday is hurting the Republic of Venezuela, is hurting the right for peace, because what we are deciding here next week is between peace or war, violence or the constituent assembly,” according to a statement issued Sunday.

Maduro reinforced his determination to hold the July 30 vote after Venezuela’s opposition party called for a 48-hour general strike in Caracas Wednesday and Thursday.

Context, that is what that pic lack. I am not going to say anything more until I know the full context of whats going on. For all we know, those guys could have been caught raping little babies, tried in a court of law and then executed

But if that is a capitalists being denastified supposedly by evil evil socialists, then what is the video below showing? capitalists killing field? but wait, I know what you are going to say. But that is not true capitalism and you be right and the socialists would also say nazis are not true socialists and where does that get anyone?

Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling…makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one evil and another, I’d rather not choose at all.Geralt of Rivia

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Context, that is what that pic lack. I am not going to say anything more until I know the full context of whats going on. For all we know, those guys could have been caught raping little babies, tried in a court of law and then executed

But if that is a capitalists being denastified supposedly by evil evil socialists, then what is the video below showing? capitalists killing field? but wait, I know what you are going to say. But that is not true capitalism and you be right and the socialists would also say nazis are not true socialists and where does that get anyone?

Over 100 million people were killed by their governments in the name of Communism. Iraq is nothing. Iraq is a rounding error compared to Communism. Just the example of Stalin in Ukraine ends the moral equivalency pretty quickly. That Wikileaks video shows nothing other than war is horrible and should be avoided.

Not sure why are you sarcastically using the phrase evil socialists. All socialists are evil. Capitalism is moral. Capitalism sustains life. Socialism not only kills, it takes away person's humanity and dignity.

But if that is a capitalists being denastified supposedly by evil evil socialists, then what is the video below showing? capitalists killing field? but wait, I know what you are going to say. But that is not true capitalism and you be right and the socialists would also say nazis are not true socialists and where does that get anyone?

The difference is that the closer you get to pure capitalism, the better. The closer you get to pure socialism the worse. By DEFINITION. Capitalism is where the right of the individual is supreme over the state. Socialism is where the needs of the state are supreme over the individual's rights.

Context, that is what that pic lack. I am not going to say anything more until I know the full context of whats going on. For all we know, those guys could have been caught raping little babies, tried in a court of law and then executed

But if that is a capitalists being denastified supposedly by evil evil socialists, then what is the video below showing? capitalists killing field? but wait, I know what you are going to say. But that is not true capitalism and you be right and the socialists would also say nazis are not true socialists and where does that get anyone?

I'm not sure what you're arguing...

My point was simply that Venezuela's problems are a result of its government's socialistic policies, not "capitalist saboteurs" or some such nonsense; and that Republicanguy's euphemistic "taking the nastiness out of capitalism" actually means theft and violence, such as is being perpetrated in that photo.

"The program of liberalism, ...if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property..."

-Ludwig von Mises

"Patriotism, not nationalism, should inspire the citizen. The ethnic nationalist who wants a linguistically and culturally uniform nation is akin to the racist who is intolerant toward those who look (and behave) differently. The patriot is a "diversitarian"; he is pleased, indeed proud of the variety within the borders of his country; he looks for loyalty from all citizens. And he looks up and down, not left and right."

-Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

"The monarch is a responsible person. The fact that a monarch is responsible "to God alone," rather than to an assembly or a popular majority, is rather shocking to an agnostic mind; but while God cannot be fooled, the masses can. While it is perhaps true that "one cannot fool all the people all the time," it seems one can fool millions for centuries."

Venezuela is overrated. How can they have huge and open mass protests and still hold up as a nation. That means the opposition support isn't what they make it out to be. Must be fake news or alternative facts.